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...Hartman and her partner Alex Fennell were fifth in line for obtaining a license. The two have been together for nine years and live in the South...
...It’s pretty unbelievable,” said Sasha Hartman, an accounts manager at a Boston advertising agency. Hartman’s words echoed the dazed mentality of the couples on hand, many of whom expressed emotions ranging from disbelief to euphoria as the clock ticked closer to the midnight filing time...
...Debbie Hartman was sure she was hearing things in her hospital room. She had just undergone a caesarean section, and the doctors were saying the baby was healthy but they weren't sure whether it was a boy or a girl. "I thought the drugs were making me hallucinate," she recalls. In fact, she was hearing just fine. But nothing about her child's biology--from the chromosomes to the reproductive tissue--conformed to the standard demarcations we have come to expect between the male and female sexes. In the language of developmental biologists, the baby was "intersexual...
Technically speaking, the Hartman baby was a true hermaphrodite. Scientists don't know how this happens, but one possible explanation is that two eggs are fertilized in the womb--one XX and the other XY--but rather than developing separately into twins, the zygotes merge to become one embryo. At any rate, "hermaphrodite" is not one of the options available on a birth certificate, so the Hartmans' doctors struggled to figure out which sex was more appropriate for the child. Meanwhile, Debbie's sister and mother told relatives and friends not to send anything pink or blue. "They said yellow...
Every time Ryan D. Hartman ’05 sees his resident tutor, he has to laugh. Or else he would cry. Or maybe even vomit. In a feat of sleuthing that is the stuff of Columbo reunion specials, Hartman recently realized that the kinky cybersex fiend who divulged all of his most perverse sexual fantasies to him on a gay online chat room over the summer and his new resident tutor are, in fact, one-in-the-same. “It’s especially ironic,” says Hartman, “because he described himself...